Metro Manila
Technical leader with 25+ years of experience spanning startups, global enterprises, and government across multiple countries. I bridge the gap between business outcomes and technical solutions, translating what an organization needs into architectures, roadmaps, and delivery strategies that the entire team can align behind. My career sits at the intersection of technical expertise, business strategy, security, and compliance. Areas of Expertise: • AI Strategy and Agentic AI Adoption • Digital Transformation and Technology Adoption • Solutions Architecture and Distributed Systems Design • Simplifying Complex Business Processes Through Technology • Process Establishment, Assessment and Optimization • Technical/Team Leadership and Mentoring
Lead architecture reviews, digital transformation initiatives, and technology assessments while advising executives on cloud adoption, distributed systems, modern delivery practices, and agentic AI adoption. Evaluate AI tooling, identify high-value automation use cases, assess vendors, and help teams integrate agents into existing workflows and architectures. Work with C-suite and senior leadership to define roadmaps that align business outcomes with technical direction. Key Achievements: • Created technology and AI adoption frameworks, including an AI readiness workshop to help organizations establish their starting point, priorities, and goals • Built armor, a defense-in-depth security layer for LLM agents that detects prompt injection, canary-token exfiltration, obfuscation, jailbreaks, tool/API abuse, and multi-turn attacks using Docker, Python, SQLite, and an embedded validator LLM • Built dep-scan, an open source Rust CLI that intercepts dependency installs and detects supply chain attacks including typosquatting, malicious install scripts, and known vulnerabilities across npm, PyPI, crates, and Go registries • Developed CodeScan, an open source security skill for AI coding agents that scans repos, packages, and skill files for supply chain attacks, backdoors, credential harvesting, and prompt injection using disposable Docker sandboxes • Built an end-to-end automated investment platform that discovers, rigorously validates, and live-trades equity strategies: a research engine that mines years of high-frequency market data and screens out overfit strategies before they risk capital, a high-fidelity Interactive Brokers market simulator for safe pre-trade validation, and a client that turns vetted strategy playbooks into fully automated, hands-off trading
Provided senior technical leadership within a start up for high-performance computing orchestration for AI and ML workloads, focused on software architecture and development. Defined technical roadmaps and prioritized development initiatives to align engineering output with business milestones. Assessed and recommended third party services and tools that were necessary but did not align with the core focus of the business strategy. Key Achievements: • Architected and built key services for the SaaS offering of Covalent Cloud and consulted on architecture and design of all services being built to ensure technical alignment enabling the first SaaS release of Covalent Cloud within 3 months of joining • Led periodic security audits and produced architecture diagrams and documentation that were key contributions to achieving SOC 2 compliance • Took on multiple roles including Software Developer, Engineering Manager, and Product Manager when necessary to cover gaps within the main engineering team to ensure consistent delivery speed and quality when members left or were unavailable • Cloud subject matter expert within the team, guided the team on service selection and troubleshooting as well as account organization to simplify management and correlate costs for the company e.g. R&D, development, production
Served as the primary technical advisor, dedicated to a national security department, designing, building, and migrating workloads on AWS. Led architectural design sessions for audiences ranging from leadership to hands-on developer workshops. Built strategic technical account plans to drive AWS adoption and authored AWS publications including blog posts and proof of concepts. Key Achievements: • Grew AWS sales revenue from $325K to $1.4M over two years through strategic technical account planning, deep architectural engagement, and securing multiple Professional Services engagements • Led hands-on workshops enabling a customer to build a secure serverless file-sharing solution with automated deployment, designed for multi-deployment rather than multi-tenant use cases which addressed a procurement constraint requiring isolated deployments per location • Built interactive architecture diagrams for the AWS Secure Environment Accelerator (ASEA) to simplify explaining a complicated multi-account architecture and demonstrate common patterns • Built comprehensive control mapping to show coverage the ASEA provides against the PBMM profile for Government of Canada customers with links to documentation • Co-authored two blog posts: Secure AI/ML in Nitro Enclaves and Identity Center Automation using CDK with accompanying open source code • Member of the Serverless Technical Field Community, Serverless ChalkTalk presenter at the 2022 AWS Ottawa summit with CSAT scores of 4.75/5 for content and 5/5 for speakers
Led proof-of-concept projects, workshops, and implementation engagements across ASEAN customers spanning migrations, HPC, big data, and disaster recovery. Worked directly with customers to define requirements, deliver solutions, and enable teams on AWS services. Fed real-world implementation challenges back to AWS engineering teams to influence service roadmaps. Key Achievements: • Led or served as senior consultant on 20+ customer engagements across ASEAN, including: • Application Discovery lead on an accelerated migration, targeting 20 apps in 50 days - achieved 31 apps migrated in 50 days • Designed migration architecture for 30-40 TB eStatement repository to S3 with dual-layer encryption (AES-256 + RSA-2048) for a major bank • DevSecOps workshop lead for a major telecom, delivering security remediation across 4 domains with 12 knowledge transfer sessions and reusable IaC templates, establishing a Cloud Operating Model with automated guardrails for application deployment • Led application complexity assessment and wave prioritization for ~40 application migration program • SRE workshop lead for a major media company, assessing 3 high-traffic digital properties across 6 pillars of the Well-Architected framework, delivering 24 actionable findings and a prioritized remediation plan to resolve recurring stability issues • Automation Lead for an internal compliance initiative: built a Python CLI that generated 50 conformance packs and 500 AWS Config rules with matching documentation from control mappings, reducing creation time from days to minutes • Built a CDK-automated serverless data pipeline for a manufacturing customer's Singapore factory, which was subsequently adopted as the global standard across the customer's factory network
Provide expert hands on technical knowledge in the full project lifecycle utilizing a strong understanding of user experience, design, build, test and deployment using the latest techniques and tools. Provision appropriate architecture that supports the needs of the Asia business units whilst adhering to global standards and reference architecture. Provide technical leadership, through hands on knowledge of existing or developing technologies that are in line with the Global Reference Architecture. In conjunction with the Global Design Authority, responsible for defining technical standards in relation to existing or recent technologies and working with the country units to incorporate the local view into the standards. Produce detailed technical architecture artifacts that result from the analysis of technologies in support of business needs. Highlight for business leaders how specific architectural choices will potentially impact critical financial metrics and risks. Contribute to shaping Aegon’s digital business with the review and evaluation of emerging technologies that support the business strategy. Maintain and foster relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders including external providers. Promote Technical Architecture, its processes, outcomes and ongoing results, to the organization, including IT leadership team and key business stakeholders. Key Achievements: • Set IT Strategy for 2019 for Regional Broker business • Set Architecture for the region (Serverless, Micro Services, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Automated Recovery, etc.) • Introduced public cloud, Agile, DevOps concepts and best practices to local teams • Introduced and standardized on C4 for modelling architecture • Help with migration from local data center to public cloud (AWS) where appropriate and within industry regulations • Established close working relationship with local Business Units (Indonesia, Thailand, India)
Architect and design solutions in coordination with the CTO and CPO that comply with the company’s strategic technology direction. Actively participate in sprints acting as technical lead and primary stakeholder for technical stories. Design solutions that are easily testable, performant, maintainable and support upcoming feature requests. Maintain and recommend improvements to the current architecture ensuring 24/7 operations and zero downtime including during deployments. Participate in the analysis, creation, and review of user stories. Perform interviews for new hires to assess technical ability as well as character to ensure they fit within the current team. Key Achievements: • Worked with the CTO and CPO to establish a technology vision that is used by the development teams to help guide them in making the right choices during development • Consulted with the existing development team to analyze and identify areas that were causing problems in the development process then proceeded to prioritize and deliver solutions to those problems • Analyzed existing monolithic application and identified areas appropriate for migration to Microservices, put in place a plan to allow this migration • Established an architecture, process, and guidelines for UI development to build components and applications that are independently deployable but can be composed into larger more complicated applications • Improved the integration and deployment process for all new projects to allow Continuous Integration and deployment • Introduced the idea of focusing development on features unique to the business while offloading routine tasks to infrastructure or SaaS providers to decrease development time • Promoted automation over documentation/manual process to improve CI/CD and free up time to focus on development • Assessed team member’s technical ability and career goals to create individual learning plans for the coming year